Category: Insights
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Key to life is choices
We were chatting to my partner’s uncle who had driven down in his campervan to meet us. At one point he mentioned: ‘I’ve always thought that the key to life is choice.’ I think he might be right! It’s the same as optionality. He also reckoned that a lot of people work themselves out of…
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The Advice Trap Review and Summary
I’ve just read through The Advice Trap – a new book which was very kindly given to me as a leaving present, and very much a thoughtful gift to help me continue my learning in the coaching domain. So, as part of that learning process, my key takeaways are: When we assume one of the…
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Digital Detox 1.0 Reflections
Earlier this year, I did a rudimentary digital detox. I’ve since done a full digital declutter and dopamine detox (which I wrote about here together with Matt Gwyther) Here are a few things that worked well orginally: No TV in the house. Only used a projector for worthwhile films. The projector has sufficient hassle to…
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My Own Top Ten Agile Coaching Principles
I’ve been working through the book, ‘Professional Coaching for Agilists’, for the second time round (that’s how good it is) and whilst reviewing Damon Poole’s and Gillian Lee’s principles, I figured I’d have a go at distilling them from 21 down to 10 and then refining them, in order to ‘make them my own’. After…
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An Objective and a Challenge
I have now shared my two career objectives with close friends and my mentor. Sharing goals is something I used to do regularly in swimming. Usually it would come about in a training session usually before a big event or at the start of a season. There was something primal about it. Sharing goals has…
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Update to our Miro PI Planning board design
I’m quite pleased with the latest online Miro PI Planning board which took at least five or six attempts to get to this stage. It’s the closest we’ve got to in terms of Dual Track Agile, with UX working a sprint ahead (or often more than one, if there is some conceptual investigation to be…
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What’s Quality?
“I think there is such a thing as quality, but as soon as you try to define it, it goes haywire.” Robert Pirsig was trying to define it, rationalise it. In the end, he went haywire trying in the process. Grades in school don’t equte to quality. People can identify quality but cannot define it.…
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Schrödinger’s Email
The cat is either alive or dead, but in quantum physics there is a scenario where it hypothetically could be both. I entered that quantum space today where I experienced both realities simultaneously. For a moment, for an eternity. I looked, read and then paused. Like those rugby players scoring a try, but not yet…
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How are you?
We’ve been doing some annual reviews and making a renewed effort to check in with people’s well-being. One thing that was pointed out was that it might be necessary to ask someone ‘how are you’ more than once because the first time people are inclined to just say ‘fine’. It reminded me of learning Arabic…
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How reliant is your team on you to achieve ‘HA’ status?
This was topic of discussion for last week’s Agile Coaching Academy. I stumbled across the quote somewhere, and now I cannot find it! Ha – from Shu Ha Ri, a distillation of the path towards martial arts mastery. 守 – shu: learning the rules 破 – ha: make them your own 離 – ri: transcend…